Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1951 — Page 2
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Experts Fired Mortar Rounds Fatal to 8
Survivors Tell of Training Mishap
4 By United Press 1 CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C., June 21--Bitter Marines who saw 33 of their buddies killed or wounded by mortar fire on a training misgion “far from battle” said today! they believed the tragedy was! caused by bad ammunition. Investigators were questioning expert weapons crews to determine ‘why two mortar shells fell short of their target yesterday, landing amidst a battalion command post. Eight Marines were killed and} 25 others were wounded. Their] names have not been released as . yet. y Members of the company who
escaped told reporters they were.
in a heavily-wooded area, near) the New River, when the shells
screamed into their midst, strik-| ing almost simultaneously pal
showering destruction in every direction. * 3 | ‘Heard the Whistle’ | “At first I didn’t know what! happened,” a private said. “I
heard the whistle of the shells
and they seemed to be coming] too close. ! “When the shells struck, I was knocked to the ground by the] blast, and dazed for a few mo-| ments, When 1 got up, men were gereaming all around me. It was horrible.”
A sergeant In another unit, |
about 25 yards back, sald hex)" Cheap?—
thought the first shell hit a tree
| beers toons. © | Big C=54 Tied Up 4 Days
“We were operating about 2000, yards forward of the battalion
meee me of oe ier For Treasury Speechmakers
housed another old CP. When the shells struck, the men were out in the open,” he said, Doubt Men at Fault
was the fault of the mortarmen,”
turally we're bitter. It isn’t easy to see your barracks-mates killed or wounded, so far from actual battle.” All but one of the men killed and wounded were enlisted men. Twenty-two of them were taken
jeun _|ing Leader, reported the six crew-ieral revenue program that will to the Camp Lejeune Naval Hoa-|,;,, ypoard the Coast Guard C-54! enable us to meet governmental had nothing to do but also go into costs, including defense costs, out
Sun Valley. The big plane, mean- of current income.” Officers ordered the mortars... stood by for four days at
pital, and another was kept at the division dispensary,
which fired the rounds impounded t and dropped a curtain of secrecy i around their investigation. However, members of the mortar crew sald they knew themselves the shells were defective the instant they left the guns, “You can see the shells for a moment after they leave the gun,” - one of them explained. “You can tell by the sound whether a shell is ‘short’.” : The mortarmen grabbed their field telephones the instant the round was fired to warn the forward post, but. the shells landed
before the messages went through... crew costs.
War's a Beastly Business, Decides Sgt. Blasingame |
AMONG OTHER reasons, 1st _Bgt. Harold Blasingame, 618 N. Alabama 8t., is fed up with Korea | because of all the stray dogs that run around there. For months he’s been chasing the strays that hang around his 24 Division orderly room, : The other day he got a letter from his favorite nephew—Eddie Smith—who begged the sergeant to stop in to see him in Arizona when he returned to the States. The letter added: “We have three dogs, Pluto, Buster and Ginger, also a mother We named the cat Josephine out she was a he have to do is take off the last three letters.” { guess 1 know when I'm
Army publicity release. i The sergeant said he'd stop in| and see the nephew and menagerie en route back to Indianapolis on rotation soon.
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Anderson Back To Normal After |
Power Is Restored
Times State Service . | ANDERSON, June 21 — Officials of the municipal light plant! today were getting much needed sleep today after working 36 hours to restore disrupted power service. Completed are temporary repairs of the damage to the power plant which was paralyzed Tuesday afternoon by a fire-explosion. Industrial activity in the city's 35 plants was back to normal today although permanent repairs of the damaged power plant remained to be made,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
ieve Bad Ammunition Caused Tragedy
INo Princes or Bullfighters— -
|After Rita and Ava, Maggie Must Be A Refreshing Relief to the
By ANDREW TULLY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 21—It's beginning to look as if we've finally got a female celebrity we can show off abroad without being embarrassed. The name is Margaret Truman and, after some of the dames who've represented Americaa womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch. This does not mean that dolls like Rita Hayworth or Ava Gard- *
ner should be made illegal. But
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1951
Dapper Mickey Europeans Is Very Blue in They Haven even patronized "His J ail D en m
For that matter, our Margaret's press notices in England have, By United Press been considerably better than 71,08 ANGELES, Cal, June 21 those given Britain's own little._Gambler Mickey Cohen, once girls — Princess Elizabeth and the fashionplate of the Western Princess Margaret Rose, * |underworld, gazed sadly at his That's because our Margaret's blue denim jail uniform today and behaved herself better—she hasn't! said his conviction on income tax danced any can-cans like Marga- évqsion charges’ was “all the reret Rose did, and she hasn't been Sult’of a political move.” keeping the late hours that the Cohen told reporters his downBritish press is always jumping fall came because “the word was on Princess Elizabeth about. jout to get Mickey Cohen. ® un | “The Kefauver Committee had
OUR MARGARET seems to be ties to a side of the underworld
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{and a serious water crisis devel-/ marrying Moslem princes and {oped when the electric pumps that staging bit maternity exhibitions,
cially in these days of sensitive inCause of the fire-explosion was|ternational relations—they're a ‘overloaded and overheated cir-jlittle too—uh—flamboyant. cuits.” From a political viewpoint, we Parts of the city were com- do not want Europeans to think pletely blacked out Tuesday night!all our women do is g0 around
‘
Margaret Truman
{provide the water's supply were like Rita did. Nor do we wish our; . halted by the power cut-off. |dolls, generally, to get a reputa- Elizabeth and Clem Attlee are Almost universal water hoard-|tion for flirting with bullfighters, | famous people all right, but Maring by residents—filling of bath- as Ava did. |garet is still young and it figures tubs, buckets, jars—rapidly low-| Hollywood is too big now to dis- she'd rather be dancing or going ered the pressure in the water own completely; there's no use [to a show than attending to all mains, giving firemen concern.trying to deny to our allies that these visits of state. Operations at the 33 plants|it exists, But what's needed is an, Nevertheless, she's
dutifully held { . .|served by municipal power were|occasional antidote for all the touching all the official bases and had skillfully maneuvered herself hours’ deliberation,
a young lady who knows instine-| ot Was against a tie still. tively how to act so she won't/ sy ved, ng : Bu r get into any trouble with the pub-| “They took the steam off every-
lic. And she does it without mak-i ne else and put it on me.”
ing a prodyction out of it, as| , federal jury found him guilty newsmen learned when Margaret, yesterday on three counts of evad-
was still new to the job of Presi- jg more than $156,000 in income °
dent's daughter, The family wasiiaxes and one count of swearing at Key West and Margaret wasii, a false statement submitted to wearing shorts — conservative the Internal Revenue Bureau. \shorts, but shorts none the less. Federal Judge Ben Harrison de- | Few of the reporters had nied bail and ordered Cohen held {thought twice about it until they for sentencing July 9. Cohen faces |saw the pictures taken at a press'a maximum sentence of 20 years conference Margaret and her pop in prison and $40,000 fine. In every shot, Margaret, The verdict, returned after four left Cohen
i Treasury officials used a four-|genoers, { “We don't believe the tragedy, ioreqd government plane and 8
took their wives along when they another noncommissioned officer .. + to Sun Valley, Ida. early
sald. “We are all positive thatigy month to address the Idaho/the Idaho bankers was “The those shells were defective. Na-.p. vars Association.
ury Undersecretary and Mrs. Ed- a pay-as-we-go tax program and! ward H. Foley and Comptroller urged buying of government deof the Currency and Mrs. Preston Delano.
fice sald a single round trip com-| acutely aware of the desira- | mercial air ticket to Twn Falls, | bility of curtailing his own ex- |
{1da., nearest commercial airport penditure programs, so far as | ito Sun Valley and return to | Washington would cost approximately $306. Mr. Delano, a Treasury spokes-
about 3612 in
“ yy : a : 1 | curtailed yesterday as electricity " 3 wo 4 ; was limited to nonindustrial use.
day. | The Guide Lamp and Delco Remy Divisions of General Motors
a : . : y ie TelepHote "WATER BABIES"'—Kathy, 4, Bubba, 5!/;, and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tongay, Peaded a plane at Miami, Fla., today en route to New York where they will connect with a flight
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Michigan Electric Co. but their activities were curtailed Tuesday because of the water crisis.
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slightly tawdry glamor we ship toiin the pictures taken of her visits/into a i { position where her shorts stunned. He shook his head numbforeign shores every year, and with these high folk she looks as were hidden by someone in front ly when reporters asked for a
Regular service was resumed to- Miss Truman is taking care of if she’s bearing up OK, while her of her. hosts generally seem to have been! startled into enjoying themselves. chance of Margaret Truman caus-| Meanwhile, Margaret seems to/ing any international incidents— notice of consumer prices and Corp. are served by the Indiana- man is having more than her have done just as well with the like Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, buying trends from TODAY IN
that assignment this year. » ~ »
IT’S QUITE possible Miss Tru-|
|statement. We'd guess there was small
Wise homemakers get advance
share of dull moments during her!ladies and gentlemen of the Brit- Alice, did when she jumped onto BUSINESS... by Harold Hartley current tour of the Continent. ish press as she's always done the back of a sacred elephant in. . . dally and Sunday im The
Winston Churchill and Queen.with newspaper people at home. India.
| Times,
that will take them to London where the two children will attempt to swim the English Channel.
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By EARL RICHERT | the trip, this would make the Soripps-Howard Staff Writer {flight costs alone amount to WASHINGTON, June 21—TwO 21700. A C-54 can carry 40 pas-
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MR. FOLEY’S subject before
| Sinews of Financial Mobilization.” | The foursome included Treas-| He made a strong speech for
fense bonds.
“Financial mobilization,” said An Idaho newspaper, the Good- Mr, Foley, ‘calls plainly for a fed-
Also he sald: he Gooding Airport, closest land-| . “One major financial mobiling field to the famous resort. | gation need at this time is that The United Air Lines ticket of-! each individual citizen be made
| they fall ‘outside the defense ‘via Cody, Wyo, | area.” So, the two Treasury officials man said, made an extempocould have made the trip for raneosu speech. The spokesman transportation said he didn't know what Mr.! costs, | Delano talked about, but he pre. The Air Force estimates it costs sumed it was bank administration. | at least $100 an hour to keep a| Neither Mr. Foley nor Mr. De-| C-54 in the air, not counting labor lano could be reached immectately | At an estimated after the facts of the trip became
So ——— —
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